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Patient Safety and Best Practices
Patients deserve to get good outcomes from healthcare. We expect our physicians, nurses and other health care providers to follow the best practices for delivering safe and consistently good care. The challenge we all face is that it is difficult for healthcare organizations to manage the risks of patient harm.
Project Patient Care is here to establish an active community of dedicated people who care about healthcare quality and safety, whether we are consumers, healthcare professionals, managers of healthcare organizations or policy makers. Technology innovators and the makers of pharmaceutical products and medical devices also are welcome to join the Project Patient Care community.
Working together we can drive the consistent use of best practices. We can talk openly about the challenges of making care better and safer. We can report unsafe things we see or experience and use those reports to continually improve.
What Can I do?
Keeping healthcare safe is a global challenge. It also is a local challenge that requires working together for better solutions in Chicagoland.
Join Project Patient Care to get started. It is free and will give you the chance to stay informed and be part of change, not just in Chicago but by networking with others across the world.
Mark your calendars to attend the 2011 Chicagoland Patient Safety Summit, co-convened by Project Patient Care and the Chicago Healthcare Executives Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center.
Contact us about hosting a meeting or webinar on a healthcare issue important to you.
latest news
HHS-CCSC Awards: 2013 Call for Applications
New System for Patients to Report Medical Mistakes
Martin J. Hatlie, the chief executive of Project Patient Care, a health care safety coalition in Chicago, welcomed the federal plan.
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Martin Hatlie, president of Project Patient Care comment on Chicago Tribune's article "Patients get a lift without growing healthcare movement"
Martin Hatlie, president of a Chicago-based patient safety advocacy group, Project Patient Care, said he often hears anecdotally of patients being dropped or falling while being moved, and thinks hospitals need to do a better job of training staff on how to safely move patients and regularly evaluating patients' risks of falling. Read More.
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Engaging Patients and Families in the Quality and Safety of Hospital Care
Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality. To promote stronger engagement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is developing a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals work together as partners to promote improvements in care. Read More.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Will Host National Workshop to Advance Use of Electronic Data For Research
Top researchers and thought leaders will provide vision for how national data infrastructure can contribute to high quality patient-centered outcomes research
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will convene a select group of researchers and thought leaders for the “National Workshop to Advance the Use of Electronic Data in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research," July 2-3, in Palo Alto, Calif. The two-day workshop will focus on developing ideas for how PCORI can facilitate the creation or function of a national data infrastructure to support highquality patient-centered outcomes research.Read More.
Analysis: Is A New Federal Patient Safety Effort Doing Enough To Curb Medical Errors? By Michael L. Millenson
The Medicare program is betting on a new course of action to curb what one medical journal has dubbed an "epidemic" of uncontrolled patient harm. Learn More.
New Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute invites Public Comment at February 27, 2012 Forum
On February 27, 2012 the new Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will hold a forum to increase awareness of its work and obtain public input and feedback about its priorities, standards, peer review processes and communication strategies. Input from patients, health care providers and other stakeholders is invited by webinar and or telephone. Learn More.
Meet the Malizzo-Ballog Family as they share their story
Meet the Malizzo-Ballog Family. They shared their story at the QualityNet 2011 Conference in Baltimore, MD on December 13, 2011 to an audience of thousands of CMS contractors working to make health care safer in the United States. We hope it will inspire others to become more patient-centered and to focus on health care improvement.
Family of woman who died after a medical error joins hospital's safety panel
Video News: Interview with Dr. Howard Koh, asst. secretary for health at HHS
September 26, 2011
HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Howard Koh discusses the role of hospitals in advancing public health in an interview with Modern Healthcarereporter Paul Barr. Barr spoke with Koh during the Chicagoland Patient Safety Summit at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
New list ranks hospitals on patient safety
Medicare releases first report on hospital-acquired conditions
By Judith Graham, Tribune reporter, April 11, 2011
Over strong objections from the hospital industry, the government has published data about things that can go wrong in hospitals — falls, objects left behind during surgeries, bloodstream or urinary infections associated with catheters, incompatible blood infusions, serious bed sores and more…(more)